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Discover the idiom 「幡然改途」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.
“Fan”: same as “turn over”; “Fanran”: quickly and thoroughly; “Tu”: the way. Refers to quickly and completely changing the original path.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
fān rán gǎi tú
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
faan1 yin4 goi2 tou4
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